Breaking bad habits: 5 easy steps to change a habit

“Good habits are difficult to develop but easy to live” and “Bad habits are easy to develop but difficult to live,” according to Brian Tracey, a well-known motivational teacher. You may recognize that successfully managing habit changes may require breaking bad habits to develop new ones.

Breaking bad clothes it takes at least 21 days. Of course, in difficult cases, it can take up to a year. Here is an example of the process of changing an unhealthy habit to a healthy one. Suppose you have decided that coffee is not good for you and, at this point, you drink coffee with sugar on a daily basis. The new habit you would like to institute is drinking unsweetened herbal tea.

At first, it can be difficult to break the bad habit of drinking coffee. You will have to use self-discipline for the first few weeks, but it will gradually get easier. Once you can change the old habit for a healthier new one, it will come in handy. Habits are remarkable because they don’t require thinking. Just “do it” for years until you change the habit again.

Here are 5 easy steps to change clothes:

1. Conscience: You must be aware of your habits. What is this habit exactly? How is this bad habit or group of bad habits affecting you? How does this habit affect others? For example, smoking often has negative effects on others and also on you.

two. Want to change: As someone with a health problem, you must decide that breaking bad habits through conscious effort is a worthy goal. You must convince yourself that changing your habit is worth the effort it takes.

3. Commitment: You must be determined to do whatever it takes to break bad habits so that you can better control your life. You make the decision that “whatever happens” will change the habit. You do the work necessary to stop. Here are some examples of habits you might want to change: smoking, overeating, eating processed foods, not exercising, drinking coffee or other caffeinated beverages, eating too much sugar or fat, drinking alcohol, procrastinating, etc.

Four. Consistent action: It is important to focus on changing only one habit at a time. Then take consistent daily actions to break the bad habit that has been causing problems and take the actions to develop a new one. We suggest doing this process step by step rather than trying to do it all at once. Sometimes changing a habit can be done “all at once” like smoking, and sometimes it works best to make a gradual change.

Make sure to give yourself positive rewards often for taking small actions to change a bad habit. Continuous day-to-day actions are essential. This is NOT an occasional action or step. It’s about being consistent every day.

5. Perseverance: There will be times when you wonder if everything is worth it. You will tell yourself that breaking these bad habits is too difficult; that you are too “weak” to change. Your old self, often so comfortable living with bad habits, is trying to hold on. Breaking your old patterns may require meditation and prayer.

Regularly visualize the rewards of moving on and the costs of breaking bad habits, and especially the value to your future of building new, better habits.

Get support from other people, especially other people who want to make changes in their lives, and read about people who have broken bad habits. Affirm that no matter what happens, you will not fall back into your old patterns of bad habits.

Now, you are armed with a 5-step process to break any bad habits or other conditions that require a change. If you have an addiction to something like alcohol, these steps alone may not be enough. You may need additional professional help or a support group, but in most cases, this 5-step process will work!